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But there has always been some form of currency. Where it be trading of services or basic forms of money, there has always been an accepted form of currency throughout different time periods.

So that means that currencies can change and new currencies can cancel out old failing currencies over time. So if the economy was really that bad that it was ruining society, They could just issue a new currency.

So that means that currencies can change and new currencies can cancel out old failing currencies over time. So if the economy was really that bad that it was ruining society, They could just issue a new currency.

In the best yes, but recently we have run into a wall. In all times past, the currency used always had value of its own (e.g coins of precious metals, rods of iron, mill stones, services, etc.). However, what we now use is worthless realistically and we have no specie to back up the paper currency. What the world uses now is money essentially based on a trust system or metaphorical worth. We can't really replace it.

In the best yes, but recently we have run into a wall. In all times past, the currency used always had value of its own (e.g coins of precious metals, rods of iron, mill stones, services, etc.). However, what we now use is worthless realistically and we have no specie to back up the paper currency. What the world uses now is money essentially based on a trust system or metaphorical worth. We can't really replace it.

There's always going back to that system of using things that have worth of their own. If the ecomomy really crashes, which is a very unlikely idea, We would still be able to use a system like that, so the people would constantly have their own economy no matter what.

It really is. In the past, currency was generally a precious metal or some object of practical use or value to society at large; but now, we are supposed to rely on some sort of trust system of metaphorical value and it just does not fly.